"endorse" as medicalese for '(patient) report (symptom)'

[Joel S. Berson]

Might it be "endorse" replacing "present", as in "the patient
presented a headache"?  (I am wondering what kind of ESL substitution
might have arisen.)

Joel

At 2/13/2009 10:51 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>My sister, who is a medical transcriptionist, writes:
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>The use of the first verb below has been spreading like a fungus among
>medical personnel, and it really bothers me.   I find it rather
>perplexing and, having first heard it from ESLs, I refused to
>transcribe it as such and reconfigured the sentences.  Have you ever
>seen it used in such a manner?
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>    The patient does endorse recent headache; however, that was
>resolved after fluid resuscitation.
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>Yuck. Unnecessary and confusing. Note her observational comment,
>"having first heard it from ESLs".
>
>Mark Mandel
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